I may or may not have been disgustingly sick this week with a cough starting Wednesday. But all is well because we still had a wonderful week and I started feeling better Friday. The best part of being sick was definitely leaving the Elders a voicemail and having them call back thinking I was a man because I barely had a voice and sounded like a teenage boy. Haha!
Last week during weekly planning we were sitting in our apartment and suddenly hear the ice cream truck. So we look at each other, drop everything, grab some money and run outside after the ice cream truck. The ice cream man ended up being from El Salvador and told us about his friends in his Country that are LDS. He said he's always wanted to know about their beliefs but never asked cause he felt it'd be awkward. So we run back to our car and get a restoration pamphlet (he was so entertained by our excessive running) and run back and teach him the restoration out in the 80 degree heat as we quickly try to eat our already melting ice cream. He seemed interested so we left him with a card.
Now fast forward to this week. We were walking outside when all of a sudden we hear a car speeding behind us make a u-turn and race towards us and break suddenly. We turn and it was the same ice cream truck! Our Salvadorean friend pokes his head out and waves. We run over to him and he was so happy! He tells us he read the pamphlet and talked to his friends and wants to learn more but is just always working (I have come to gain a strong dislike for jobs that make people work on Sundays....). We also found out he works in our area but lives in another mission (Southern Virginia). Nonetheless it was cool to see what an impact our contact had on him and how strongly the spirit was able to testify of the truthfulness of the restoration. Once again, RARELY do we have people chase after us!
Have you ever seen two missionaries teaching a lesson at Starbucks? That was Hermana McCracken and I this week. Our investigator Luiggi lives alone so we normally meet up to have lessons in public places when we can't find members to come to the lesson with us. He is almost done with 1 Nephi. He comes to our lessons with so many great questions and insight on his reading in the Book of Mormon. BUT we are still about 2 lessons away from teaching the Word of Wisdom. (A law of health given by God that tells us what we should and shouldn't eat or drink.) Thanks to a modern revelation and prophets we know that we must stay away from strong or hot drinks like coffee and tea. Sooo, we had yet to teach Luiggi this. Tuesday Luiggi sends us the address of the restaurant we are meeting at. We type it into our GPS and pull up and realize it is a Starbucks... oh no. We meet up with Luiggi and he offers us some coffee. We sit down and have a full on lesson on the Word of Wisdom and Luiggi quickly agrees with it and understands everything! We were so relieved. Then he says, "Afterall I don't really ever drink coffee anyways, I'm more of a tea kind of person." And immediately after got up and ordered some tea. In that moment it hit us that we forgot to mention tea... hahaha! You can probably picture our faces in that moment panicking. Two missionaries at starbucks teaching our investigator as he drinks his tea... haha! Now that he understands and has prayed about it he let us know he is willing to give up tea, he's so great!
Here are some pictures of us and the English sisters at Little Washington for p-day.
That's all for this week, Love you guys!!
Hermana Tapia
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